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From the memex to the web to wikis to org-mode to Project Xanadu to attempts to make a map of every thought a person thinks: the augmentation of memory has been an extremely generative vision for computing.

Equally important was our practice of giving every full-time employee an interview every six months. At Stanford I’d been taught that employees never organize because of money: they organize because of un-listened-to grievances. We set up a program under which each employee (including some part-timers) was interviewed, not by the immediate superior... See more

One obvious step toward intentional language models would be for the creators of these models to be more intentional about what goes into their training data. For example, (Du et al., 2022) have demonstrated that a language model trained on a smaller dataset of curated data outperforms on standard benchmarks a model trained on a larger but less cur

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Here we have an account of sublime experience that oscillates between feeling reduced to nothing in comparison with the great spatial and temporal expanse of nature, and then feeling elevated by two thoughts ‘that only philosophy makes clear’. First is the thought that as cognising, thinking subjects we in a sense create (support, construct) our ow

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Consumer investors can now get access to professional-quality data through tools like Atom Finance and TIKR, which offer lightweight Bloomberg Terminal functionality at a fraction of the cost.

But while the technology to distribute our ideas has grown in leaps and bounds, the interfaces have remained largely the same.